Four miners die at Sibanye shaft
Amcu calls for Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in amending mine safety legislations
Four mineworkers were found dead at Sibanye Stillwater’s Kloof Ikamva Shaft after they went missing on Monday. This is the second incident at the company after 13 mine-workers were trapped underground in May at the firm’s Masakhane shaft in Driefontein following seismic activity. Seven workers were killed. “The NUM [National Union of Mineworkers] is angry and concerned at the rate at which mining incidents are happening at Sibanye Stillwater,” union spokesman Livhuwani Mammburu said on Monday night. “It seems that disasters have become the order of the day at Sibanye Stillwater and we are highly disturbed and angered by this as this company is leading the pack in terms of fatalities and the number of deaths per mine. “This is unacceptable as we don’t sell our lives, limbs or lungs to the industry but our labour,” he said. The Department of Mineral Resources minister and its inspectorate must now act on this employer or bear the might of NUM, NUM health and safety chairman Peter Bail...
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